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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-01-30 20:37:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-02-01 19:20:40 -0800 |
| commit | 0eb97f38d2bfaea289b44c5140a7b04e7b369bad (patch) | |
| tree | e9d0d1ae9ec236f32da3642723111c86c80d530a | |
| parent | 51f72f4a0f92e4abde33a8bca0fac9667575d035 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-0eb97f38d2bfaea289b44c5140a7b04e7b369bad.zip op-kernel-dev-0eb97f38d2bfaea289b44c5140a7b04e7b369bad.tar.gz | |
sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir
When insert_header fails ensure we return the proper error value
from get_subdir. In practice nothing cares, but there is no
need to be sloppy.
Reported-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index ebe8b30..722ec11 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ static struct ctl_dir *get_subdir(struct ctl_dir *dir, { struct ctl_table_set *set = dir->header.set; struct ctl_dir *subdir, *new = NULL; + int err; spin_lock(&sysctl_lock); subdir = find_subdir(dir, name, namelen); @@ -890,7 +891,9 @@ static struct ctl_dir *get_subdir(struct ctl_dir *dir, if (PTR_ERR(subdir) != -ENOENT) goto failed; - if (insert_header(dir, &new->header)) + err = insert_header(dir, &new->header); + subdir = ERR_PTR(err); + if (err) goto failed; subdir = new; found: |
